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Thunderbird 1.5 Gets Ready to Fly
The first version of the Mozilla Foundations Thunderbird was a serviceable e-mail client; the latest version may be a great one.
At first, Thunderbird Version...
Experian Pays $485M for PriceGrabber.com
Betting that price comparison sites will play an increasingly prominent role in e-commerce, credit information vendor Experian will spend almost half a billion dollars...
Survey: Some Quest Users Would Consider Nixing Oracle Upgrade
While Oracle Corp. is still evaluating its underlying platform decision for Project Fusion, its next-generation application suite under development now, some users are quite...
MS Exchange 12 Beta Brings Unified Messaging
Microsoft Corp. will on Wednesday release the first beta of Exchange "12"—the next version of its e-mail, calendaring and unified messaging server—to a closed...
Search Companies Find Berkeley
The city of Berkeley, Calif., isnt generally thought of as part of Californias tech hot spot Silicon Valley.
Yet the quirky city known for its...
Web Titans in Web Developer Skirmish
Thanks to recent moves by Google Inc., Yahoo Inc. and Microsofts Internet division, MSN, Web developers are experiencing a spike in attention showered upon...
IBM Forms Global Alliance with Red Hat, Novell
IBM has elevated Linux vendors Red Hat Inc. and Novell Inc. to highest-tier partner status by making them members of its Strategic Alliance program.
The...
Anti-spyware Battles Rootkits with Rootkit Tactics
Anti-spyware software companies are adding features to their products that spot rootkits and other malicious programs that operate at the Windows "kernel," or core...
A Blogging Skeleton Emerges
SAN FRANCISCO—Yahoo Inc., America Online Inc. and several other online search giants support a relatively new idea to sync up bloggers with powerful Internet...
Mr. LUA Goes to Washington
WASHINGTON, DC—The gospel according to LUA (least-privileged user account) took center stage at Microsoft Corp.s Security Summit East here with a pair of Redmond...